Uncommon skeletal manifestations of a rather common systemic disease

Vasiliki Bizimi, Sofoklis Antonakis, Olympia Papakonstantinou

Abstract


A 32-year-old female patient was evaluated for pelvic and low back pain. Medical history was unremarkable, except from a laborious childbirth two months before. Full blood cell count and biochemical markers were normal. Autoantibody profile, inflammatory indicators, microbiologic stains and tuberculosis cultures were negative.

Imaging work up included radiograph and MR imaging of the pelvis and sacroiliac joints (Fig 1), followed by CT of the chest and abdomen (Fig 2).


Keywords


sarcoidosis; musculoskeletal manifestations; imaging of sarcoidal disease of

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.36162/hjr.v7i3.440

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